Mr Halfon said catch-up funding is 'not reaching the most disadvantaged children', while 'there are significant regional disparities and there is a real risk of failure through Randstad as the delivery partner'.

Taiwan is a major producer of chips used in everything from cars and smartphones to data centres and fighter jets, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) is the world's largest contract chipmaker and Asia's most valuable listed firm.

(Reporting by Sarah Wu; Writing by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Himani Sarkar & Simon Cameron-Moore) TSMC's dominance in making some of the world's most advanced chips for high-end customers such as Apple Inc and Qualcomm Inc has shielded it in recent quarters from the downturn flagged by chipmakers including Micron Technology Inc.

You loaded up the game, and it picked a random word from the 13,000 that are five letters long. Like, brute force, you were trying a lot of guesses that weren't words, which didn't feel good to me.' And so that game was different. And it turns out in the English language, there are a lot of really, really out there words. 'I built a prototype of Wordle in, like, 2013,' he said. 'There were a couple of things wrong with it.

Save yourself a whole lot of mess -- and calories -- and get freakishly similar results to deep frying with an air fryer. You're talking to a full air fryer convert and, honestly, these things couldn't be easier to use. The super convection cooking zaps the outside of foods for a crispy crust without burning or overcooking. Plus, your home won't smell like a carnival food truck afterward.  You could mess with a deep fryer to make wings, fries, poppers and other classic game-day snacks, but with air fryers in the mix, why would you?

Handmade chip and dip bowl

Chips and salsa is much a staple as anything else on game day. This handmade bowl-in-a-bowl accommodates both and looks pretty darn cool doing it.

HSINCHU, Taiwan, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Rising Taiwan-China and U.S.-China tensions have brought "more serious" challenges for the semiconductor industry, the chairman of Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC said on Wednesday.

You can pay a lot more than $47 for an air fryer if you want loads of fancy settings and features, but this nearly 4-quart Chefman analog fryer has great reviews and enough cooking capacity to air-fry up batches for the gang.

Brooklyn-based British software engineer Josh Wardle, who released Wordle three months ago, cashed in Monday after The Times announced that it had purchased the mega-hit word game for an undisclosed price in the low seven figures.

Liu said he looked forward to Taiwan's industry, government and academia developing "more concrete, constructive measures" on industrial policies related to innovation, research, talent education and retention "to maintain Taiwan's most critical semiconductor industry advantages".

And, hey, if you're going to release a game that goes viral, don't put it on a website called powerlanguage dot co dot U.K. Turns out in retrospect, I'm pretty sure he was saying 'foul language.' I misheard it as 'power language,' but I was so captivated by the idea that swearing would be called power language — the idea that it had this power — that I got caught up in it in a way that you do when you're a teenager, these dumb things. So I bought a domain name. 'What I thought he said was, "Don't use that power language." I think it was because we were swearing. forward slash Wordle. 

A new report from the Commons Education Select Committee, published on Thursday, said the government must also assess the success of the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) under Randstad, and that if the company cannot deliver the scheme effectively it must be 'booted out'.

Like, "You could put ads on it, You could do premium." And I don't know, maybe I'm an idiot. None of that really appeals to me. If I'd been trying to make a viral game I think it would be very different.' 'What's interesting is, people ask me all the time about the monetization stuff. I think because I started with the intention of not doing it, it's been easy to say no.

While the chips sector is already bracing for waning demand as red-hot inflation squeezes spending, Taiwan faces a tougher situation - sandwiched between its largest export market China and its main international backer and arms supplier, the United States - especially as Beijing steps up military pressure to force Taipei to accept Chinese sovereignty claims.

If you're playing host for the big game this year, don't go it alone. Like you might just pull this off after all? Check out these great gadgets and kitchen gear for making your 2021 football watch party the best, and easiest, one ever. 

If your goal is to make crispy wings and fries, cheesy dips and hearty chilis without breaking a sweat, we've got some small kitchen appliances that make a big difference for cooking and serving the marquee game-day classics. There are also drinks to consider, of course, and since beer is the tipple du jour, we found some nifty glassware and insulated can coolers to keep everything extra booze delivered along with most of your food staples, saving you lots of time, trouble and trips to the store.